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SP received her Oxford BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall .

AB 's three eldest sisters had attended Oxford and one had become a don, though her two other elder sisters had been kept from university life by poor health. Her family assumed that she would...

JW attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a...

KN 's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather...

As a little girl ML attended Ladybarn House School in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi and Froebel . This was part of...

MR had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College , from which she won a place at Oxford .

In her final exams MJ earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University , after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of...

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

In August 1869 JR was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University . While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art , donated and arranged art collections, and...

In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford , but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment...

From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...

JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.

SD 's brother James, born in 1672, studied at Oxford and died young in 1700, deeply mourned. She never mentions the other brother, Robert, b. 1673, who became a lawyer and had a large family.

ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

CO 's father, Charles Oman , said that his early life had been most unhappy. He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls. He became librarian of the...